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Some people are just born to be nurses. Chester County Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care (NICU) nurse Victoria DiBerardino, BSN, RN, is one of those people. For as long as she or her mother can remember, DiBerardino has wanted to be a nurse. Specifically, a nurse who works with babies. It’s a calling that may have had a lot to do with the first few weeks of DiBerardino’s life.

In this Q&A, Rachel Talley, MD, a clinical assistant professor of Psychiatry in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, discussed public psychiatry, the impact of COVID-19 on community mental health, and how she went from an internship at the White House to championing public health at Penn’s department of Psychiatry.

Stress and anxiety, language barriers, and low health literacy can limit comprehension, breed frustration, and make patients and caregivers feel like they’re incapable of making informed decisions. When facing these obstacles, many physicians turn to a different form of communication: drawing.

For Iris Reyes, MD, a professor of Emergency Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine, getting the COVID-19 vaccine was a no brainer.

In January 2020, when we were yelling across crowded restaurants, elbow to elbow in darkened movie theaters, and shaking hands with strangers, the idea that we would face a global pandemic was unthinkable.

Twitter is noisy — which makes it a perfect tool for bioinformatics experts like Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez, PhD, who study language to help improve health outcomes.

For years, the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has been bridging the great physical distance between the Penn campus in Philadelphia and places around the world, largely through Penn’s Center for Global Health.

There was a notable pause in the Pennsylvania Hospital auditorium after Emergency Department nurse Eric Young, RN, BSN, received his COVID-19 vaccine at 6:15 am on Wednesday morning. The room fell silent except for the flashing of photographers’ cameras.

It is the season of giving, and while friends and family members are looking for the perfect gift to give one another, it is also a time when many people regularly set aside time to give back to people in need in the community.

The window outside Larry Garcia’s office at Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center is decorated with signs created by local schoolchildren during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic’s spring peak.